As an author and creative writing teacher, I've been painting and drawing--a learning process for sure--for a few years now. I started in acrylics and then added water colors. The nonverbal activity has been enriching to my life no matter how much failure ( a lot ) has been involved. It's been so worth it. I may soon write about one of teachers ... who's amazing. Love what you're doing, Nikki.
Mary, I'd love to read more about your teacher! The drawing/painting uses a completely different set of neurons to straight writing/typing. I'm finding when I'm just drawing something, it's also a little different to cartooning when there's some overlap with the storytelling zone of the brain... But, early days yet and I'm still figuring out what's going on when I work on different aspects of this project.
As an author and creative writing teacher, I've been painting and drawing--a learning process for sure--for a few years now. I started in acrylics and then added water colors. The nonverbal activity has been enriching to my life no matter how much failure ( a lot ) has been involved. It's been so worth it. I may soon write about one of teachers ... who's amazing. Love what you're doing, Nikki.
Mary, I'd love to read more about your teacher! The drawing/painting uses a completely different set of neurons to straight writing/typing. I'm finding when I'm just drawing something, it's also a little different to cartooning when there's some overlap with the storytelling zone of the brain... But, early days yet and I'm still figuring out what's going on when I work on different aspects of this project.